Setting django-nonrel and its sample app for App Engine SDK 1.8

07 Jun 2013 I have written the this post, because setting up things is boring. In fact, I hate figuring small details over and over again and again. So I decided to write this step by step guide. For explanation and how it works there are excellent tutorials at Google developersand at All Button Pressed.

It worked for me on 7.6.2013 on Ubuntu 12.10. (It should be fully reproducible if you use the same versions of Git and Mercurial repositories)

Steps:

Download Python App Engine SDK (I used 1.8) and unpack it and move it to /opt directory

wget http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_1.8.0.zip
unzip google_appengine*.zip
sudo mv google_appengine /opt

Pull the test app from Github and change to that directory

git clone git://github.com/django-nonrel/django-testapp.git
cd django-testapp

Pull the other dependencies for Django-nonrel

cd /opt
sudo hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/twanschik/django-autoload
sudo git clone git://github.com/django-nonrel/django-dbindexer.git
sudo git clone https://github.com/django-nonrel/django
sudo git clone git://github.com/django-nonrel/djangoappengine.git
sudo git clone https://github.com/django-nonrel/djangotoolbox

Link the to the SUBDIRECTORIES and not their wrappers

cd django-testapp
ln -s /opt/django-autoload/autoload
ln -s /opt/django-dbindexer/dbindexer
ln -s /opt/django
ln -s /opt/djangoappengine
ln -s /opt/djangotoolbox/

Run the application

cd django-testapp
python manage.py runserver

Open browser at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

chromium-browser http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Change your APPNAME in app.yaml at the first row. You will find or generate APPNAME at https://appengine.google.com/.
```
# First row NOW should look like of app.yaml
application: APPNAME
```
Upload the source code to Google Cloud
```
cd django-testapp
./manage.py deploy
```
Open your app at chromium.
```
chromium-browser APPNAME.appspot.com
```